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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Want to celebrate Holi in Varanasi or spend Eid unwinding in the Maldives? Be ready to pay up. With Holi falling on 14 March (Friday) and Eid expected on 31 March (Monday), travellers are seizing the back-to-back long weekends, sending hotel rates soaring.

KKS Murthy, the owner of Bengaluru’s Select Books, who recently passed away aged 95, it was after a gap of many years. He seemed quite unchanged, sitting amid the heaps of books in his now 80-year-old shop off Brigade Road. He recognised me at once and, without asking, directed me to a pile of second-hand cookbooks. I rarely buy physical books now. You can tell me all about the joys of holding a printed book, and I’ll shrug and switch on the e-books app on my tablet or phone, with instant access to thousands of books, new ones instantly available, all easily searchable, with adjustable lighting and size. I also live in a humid Goa valley, which is rotting my old books. But I still love second-hand books. Booksellers like Murthy who specialise in them are rare now, with the places where they congregated — Fort’s pavements in Mumbai, Moore Market in Chennai —mostly cleared away. New & Secondhand, in Mumbai’s Dhobi Talao, is a distant memory. But Murthy kept the flag flying for the kind of place where, instead of the purposive searching of regular bookshops, you could randomly sift through piles and find the one book which, through past owners and shops, was waiting for you.

social media, leaving users stunned and struggling to believe what they were seeing. The incident took place in Pak Tho, Mueang Ratchaburi, where a man named Rayban Naklengboon had purchased the ice cream from a local street vendor. Expecting a sweet treat, he was instead met with a chilling sight—a black-and-yellow snake’s head embedded in the frozen dessert, its lifeless eyes staring back at him. Stunned by what he had just found, Rayban took to Facebook to share photos of the bizarre incident. His post, which referenced a popular black bean-flavored ice cream in Thailand, quickly went viral, sparking a wave of shock and disgust among users. Along with the photos, he wrote that the snake had “big eyes” and asked his followers if it was really dead yet. He also added that it is a real picture, because he bought the ice cream for himself.

Donald Trump's push to boost American production and exports, ToI reported. However, across-the-board duty reductions may not necessarily translate into higher US shipments to India, as companies are likely to source goods from more competitive markets like China or Southeast Asia. Despite the tariff debates, American brands such as Harley-Davidson and Tesla do not currently manufacture vehicles in the US for export to India. Harley-Davidson, a brand often associated with US presidents, imports its motorcycles from Thailand, while Tesla—on the verge of entering the Indian market—plans to ship its electric vehicles from Germany after Indian authorities discouraged imports from China. Locational advantages, lower freight costs, and economies of scale make it more profitable for companies to manufacture in other countries rather than the US. Many firms also take advantage of India's free trade agreements to ship goods at zero duty.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Digital detoxes, meditation, Buddhist philosophy and other antidotes to contemporary life have entered “The White Lotus." In the third iteration of the HBO anthology created by Mike White, wealthy vacationers don’t just want a lavish holiday. They want to heal their souls.

Delhi and Udaipur. This being part of the ‘Golden Triangle’, the plane usually had a fair number of tourists, many from France. Seated somewhere near on the plane, I would hear them catalog the ways in which “this could be such a great place if only…”. In French, of course, oblivious to the possibility that anyone around would understand. While I seethed, my nationalist instincts primed. I wanted to ask them how much they paid for their room in a haveli near the lake, and three square meals among the bougainvilleas? Where else could they buy so much beauty so cheap? All that came back to me with the recent stories in the Economist and Le Monde on why India does so badly on tourism: India gets about 10 million foreign tourists a year, while France, a tenth in area and less than a twentieth in population, gets 100 million. France has the Mona Lisa, but we have the Taj Mahal. France is easy for European tourists but we are next to China, the biggest spender in the world on international tourism.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. SINGAPORE—Cui Shu, a lawyer in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen, was working in his office Friday morning when a flurry of calls and text messages arrived from clients, frantically seeking guidance about President Trump’s latest proposal, delivered by social-media post hours earlier: an additional 10% tariff on all Chinese imports. One of Cui’s clients, a manufacturer of electrical transformers, was already shifting production to Malaysia.

U Kyaw Soe Win delivered a speech at the Mekong-Ganga Food Festival, organized by the Embassy of India in Yangon in collaboration with the Indian Women’s Association in Yangon and the Myanmar Women Entrepreneurs Network, at the Secretariat Yangon in Yangon, last week.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. American hospitality chain Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is betting on India’s next generation of hotel developers to drive its future growth. As younger, first-time owners enter the industry with a preference for greater control, the world’s largest hotel franchisor sees a chance to expand without the traditional costs of managing or owning properties.

electric aircraft startup ePlane Company has announced a strategic collaboration with Dubai-based Empire Aviation Group to integrate business aviation solutions and take ePlane’s aircrafts international. The collaboration aims to fast-track the deployment of electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) air-taxis and air-ambulances across India, UAE, Thailand, and Indonesia, the startup said.

Inflation accelerated in Japan, the UK and Canada, reinforcing a resurgence in price pressures around the world at the start of the year.

Kapil Garg would say, yes. He set up his company, Thela Gaadi, in 2021 to sell quirky socks, after he glanced at his own uninspiring pair. Back in 2014, as a corporate workhorse, Garg would wear formal attire and soon realised that socks were the only things he could play around with. “One day, I peeped at my shoes and found those boring grey socks sadly looking at me and I wondered why my socks couldn’t be colourful?” Later, while holidaying in Thailand, he picked up novelty socks from the local market.

Hamas since its attack on Israel returned home on Sunday after their release from captivity last month.

China’s leader Xi Jinping and visiting Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra have vowed to crack down on the scam networks that plague Southeast Asia as the two met in Beijing

wine pairing in a city known for bold spices, Suhring is the place to go. The restaurant, run by twin brothers Mathias and Thomas Suhring, has proudly held on to two Michelin stars since 2018.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It turns out I’m going to write a book! It will require years of agony, but I’ll do it. Also, I will retire at 65.

Hamas has handed captive Israeli soldier Agam Berger over to the Red Cross in the Gaza Strip.

Year of the Snake with vibrant celebrations, cultural traditions, and hopes for prosperity. From temple rituals in Hong Kong to grand festivities in Moscow, the occasion was observed on a global scale.